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Free trade is largely a liberal idea.  The Democrats have been pandering to unions so much that it seems as though they’re against free trade… but the ideologues on the far left are definitely against corporate welfare.  Furthermore, it’s not that they don’t want wealth redistribution… it’s that they want our wealth to go to 3rd world countries.  They’re thinking in terms of global wealth redistribution.

Free trade is largely a liberal idea.

Liberal economics (as in laissez-faire liberalism) is not, and has never been, a “liberal idea” in the political sense of the word.

To quote:

The qualification classical was applied in retrospect to distinguish early nineteenth-century liberalism from evolutions in liberal thought during the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially the “new liberalism” associated with Thomas Hill Green, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse,[7] and Franklin D. Roosevelt,[8] which grants the state a more interventionist role in the economy, including a welfare state. Classical liberalism is not to be confused with the ideology that is commonly called “liberalism” in the United States.

“Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil… a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unision.” - Milan Kundera

Free trade is largely a liberal idea.

Is that why Pelosi and company refused to vote on a Free Trade Agreement with Columbia? Why they changed the rules to avoid taking a vote (and a stand)?
Democrats Love Free Trade Like a Vampire Loves Garlic

Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

Pelosi can’t piss off the unions… or farmers.  Her political actions are not her philosophical leanings.

Read up a bit to where I quoted wiki for you. The philosophical leanings of American Left are historically protectionist. So if you’re saying that we don’t know her philosophical leanings… are you saying that Pelosi is a closet Republican?

“Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil… a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unision.” - Milan Kundera

I don’t think my explanation came across very well.